Protesters in Clearwater, Florida who are claiming that the government has stripped them of a place to exercise are fighting against their oppression by … exercising freely.
Local NBC news affiliate WFLA News Channel 8 tweeted videos on Monday of about 30 people demanding that gyms be allowed to reopen after they were shut down by the state’s stay-at-home order amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
The protesters are seen doing push-ups and squats on the sidewalk in front of a courthouse, clearly having found a way to exercise without the gyms they claim to need.
WATCH: Protesters calling for gyms to reopen in Florida are doing squats and push-ups outside the Clearwater courthouse https://t.co/3BVzxHQPEJ #Florida #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/3cjgQ6kaM8
— WFLA NEWS (@WFLA) May 11, 2020
Although Florida Gov. Rick DeSantis (R) has already begun opening up the state, gyms don’t fall under his “Phase One” process of letting non-essential businesses reopen. Gyms will open up shop at Phase Two, which has not been given a start date yet.
I rather a entire nursing home die, then miss leg day for another couple of weeks!
Is the US unique in these imbecile protest?
This is not as good as the weird guys with big guns waiving them for the camera. I prefer that set of nuts, it is much more likely to turn off the few persuadable voters (suburban educated men, and the few suburban educated women who are not Jesus freaks who have not yet completely soured on Trump).
ForciNg peopLe to do isoMetric exErciSes outSide of a GYm shouLd be A feloNey. It’s barbaric!
They are protesting that they must have a gym to exercise, by exercising without a gym…